with the release of the Super Mario Brothers movie and the oscar-nominated song Peaches
time to look at the Mastery that Jack Black really has with his voice and there's really
not a better song to dive into than Master Exploder Jack Black is amazing with placement
with his mixed voice good musical sizzly grit and he does it all from this place of freedom
I think one of the greatest reasons that Jack Black is so good is because he just doesn't
care it is also completely ridiculous and just throw whatever's out there you know he
even stays here we wrote this song 10 minutes ago or whatever like this is where we all
need to get with our own voices we need to be at a point where we're not taking ourselves
seriously we're not in striving mode we're just like I don't care whatever comes out
is a little bit better and if we have that attitude and then go into singing we're going
to do a lot better than if we're all tense and tight because we're trying to do very
specific things with our voice so keep that in mind as we go in and explore what Jack
Black's approach is are here in this video if you'd like more help pulling things out
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I'm gonna be stopping a lot because there's a lot to point out I realize that he's being
a complete ham here just
now how his tone changes there's a clue here as he changes his resonance as he changes
his tone a bit he places his voice slightly differently to set himself up for going much
higher he's like ah right and then Watch What Happens [Music] foreign
I'm exaggerating it but it went from that darker oh
ah to that Brasher brighter sound now listen to what he does with it
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this brass Sound Works this placement works for going super high in mixed voice this ah
has a ceiling he knows that if he moves his resonance around he can posture his voice
he can get things in line so that his range becomes nearly 11 less
[Music] and there's grit there too [Music] a microphone
I do not need this is classic compression we hear James Hetfield use it we hear I mean
we hear all you know but he sounds a little bit like James Hetfield here maybe I do not
need no I do lift lift your desk lift your desk lift something really heavy and then
try singing I do not need just make sure that engagement that you have with with your throat
when you're holding the air back feels like it's as high as possible in your vocal tract
who don't I don't know we don't want that we want I do not need a microphone and then
he carries this up listen again
that's not powerful he is not simply yelling till his voice distorts though he is finding
those notes getting them clean when he's practicing this when when anybody practices this well
get the get the notes first powerful and he's accessing those higher notes with that Brash
sound that I talked about earlier powerful then hold back the air put the Distortion
over the top of it
oh powerful
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ah now even in that character right there oh yeah oh yeah he is bouncing back and forth
between different vocal characters he arcs his phrases and he's I mean you can see it
on his face you can see it everywhere he is free he is not locked
that is a clean mixed sound this is not head voice
as a lot of people might but they're just trying to hit the note do but this is this
is a mixed posture that he's getting from that bright sound he had earlier hit the note
first and then add a little bit more support and then think a lot of people call this twang
what I'm going to do is I'm going to think Brasher and a little bit more nasal so I'm
going to let the voice go through my nose
and then I'm gonna I'm gonna push with my support
well I must not have the right posture so I'm going to do is I'm going to start a little
bit lower
get as Brash as I possibly can
and then I'm going to start just weeping like a little
so I mean I mean it's brass chest voice and then I'm making this sound that's causing
not me to do this I'm not sighing I'm
I'm sort of whining and then I'm gonna hold on to that Sensation that I get when I do
that in this pressure
[Applause] and then as I go down I'm gonna darken it so that I separate these characters
out and provide more Nuance to my voice that's what he's doing he's just doing it very goofily
you guys like Chris Cornell do this really really well
sorry
to blow your mind blow your mind and through the darkest that blow your mind just blow
your mind
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hear him lightening his he has that that brush sound that he had earlier but he's he's actually
pairing it back a little bit and then pushing into it
so there is an element of pure head voice there but he's blending that approach with
his mixed voice approach I've done a lot of videos on mixed voice I don't go to it as
much here because we're getting through this video but check out my playlist on mixed voice
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yeah yeah I love there's a lot of ease going on just see what do you see yeah then he opens
up and he thins it out a little bit he's really strategic with how he's doing things here
this node he gets really engaged it's that's a that's a a lower mix or higher chest note
with compression it it joins his voice together in a way that it wouldn't without the compression
but then you know they put delay on it
he opens his voice up there it's interesting to to hear how great singers do an equally
good job of executing the techniques that they've practiced and also using their voice
in ways that masks where they're not as good and a lot of people are not as good on e vowels
it's harder to sing high and thick with an eval or an ooh vowel and so when he goes higher
he makes sure he's on a very open yeah yeah as opposed to yeah that's harder less sustainable
he saves those for the foreign
playing around like that the open vowels are all hot and the more clothes difficult vows
are low
yeah so fun but so educational at the same time if you know what to look and listen for
thanks for watching thanks for enjoying the style of Jack Black with me again if you'd
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